Free breakfast in this hostel. Nothing special - just cornflakes and toast, but it is free. You have to pay a deposit for a mug here, so I paid and was able to make myself a coffee, also free. After breakfast, I planned out my day.

American Pie was just starting when I went downstairs after getting ready, so I watched some of that, then …

We thought that we would spend the day on the buses. Although the weather is hot, there is a strong wind that cools things down. We went through our usual morning ritual of travelling by bus via 3 rail stations to the Olympic Park, where we once again caught the train proper down to Circular Quay. That was enough travelling for the time being as …

January 1st was a very chilled out day, during which I recovered from the night before! I watched films and ate junk food all day with my friends from the hostel. The day after we all woke early to go to the Blue Mountains which were about an hour or so away by train. We bought a hop on hop off bus ticket to take us around the national park to see …

Started the day with an early morning run through the botanical gardens. Joined up with "I'm Free" central Sydney tours for a free two hour tour of the city. More or less what we saw the first day but with some additional history and background stories. After the tour visited darling harbour, fish market, Chinatown and Surrey Hill before returning …

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... where he is going". Brian quickly shushed me and the taxi drove down to the Opera House and we crossed the road to No.1 MacquarieStreet, otherwise known as Aria, the number 1 restaurant in Sydney. The waiter led us through the very posh bar ...

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